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Atlanta used Georgia Tech's campus to house athletes in 1996 (and renovated/added additional dorms as well, at least as I understand it). Honestly, as bad as A
by sjm-lbm 10y ago
Atlanta used Georgia Tech's campus to house athletes in 1996 (and renovated/added additional dorms as well, at least as I understand it).
Honestly, as bad as Atlanta's Olympics look at the time (with commercialism and the bombing, for example), I really think they deserve a lot of credit for using it as an excuse to provide the city with renovations people could use. Hopefully LA can do the same.
- ja27 10y agoThey gutted a pretty rough area south of campus and built a lot of new housing for the athlete village. For a while, both Georgia Tech and Georgia State used those buildings as dorms but Georgia State built their own closer to campus and now it's all Georgia Tech property. A lot of the Tech fraternity houses were rented out to media companies and got renovated. Tech did get a lot of use out of the aquatic center and it gets used for many NCAA events. They did finally defuel the Neely nuclear research reactor on campus before the games. I'd wondered how they were going to house athletes next to an experimental reactor. Nothing can excuse that mascot though.